New Open dataset alert: 🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience! N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks! 🧵below

Out today! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our new research paper is out in NHB, which we apparently coauthored with acclaimed actor Ryan Reynolds. Critics are calling it his best work since Deadpool.

Out today!

I built a little Shiny app that shows how often various words were used in 20 prominent philosophy journals from 1980-2019. bweatherson.shinyapps.io/t20-graphs/

How do children figure out what other people believe, especially when those beliefs are wrong? And what kinds of mental effort does it take to get that right? New paper out now:

For #CogSci2025, myself, Alice Lin, and Keith Holyoak ask: Does AI derivative artwork have an “Original Sin”? We find that they do not. Recent legal rulings have denied copyright to artworks derived from AI-generated sources.

X-Jur has arrived -

Great read: part of the research on LLM remains poor, no doubt because of the incentives and the private nature of some of the research

Looking forward to presenting Wikipedia research at the University of Chicago tomorrow for the Conference on Empirical Legal Studies 2023.

Americans overwhelmingly believe that people should inherit near 100% of their parents' assets but near 0% of their parents' debts (including when parents have both assets and debts!). Are there coherent arguments justifying these beliefs? (data with Pinar Aldan)